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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1920
Page
2
Estimated hogs receipts 19 000 with holdover 4 44. Cattle receipts 11 000 and calves 12 000. Lambs 29 000. Market steady to up to 25 cents, tops 16 50 on cattle. beef and butcher cattle ranges seen. Wheat corn oats rye prices listed with cash closes. officials show mixed futures and cash activity.
The column lists upcoming farm sales in Sept and Oct from various Washington Kalona Wellston Noble and Washington firms. It also reports a tuberculosis test result: about 18 percent of ~900 cattle in Bremer county herds positive, with 46 herds tested and 75 total tested. Agricultural notes urge rape pasture and discuss purebred sires boosting profits in South Dakota.
An Illinois farmer, W H Elhart, shares a compact two cistern water system that separates soft rain water from deep well water. Two cistern pumps supply kitchen sinks with soft or hard water, eliminating frequent deep pumping and avoiding dry pails. Installation is inexpensive and doable by farm help.
Crop injury from corn root worms is reported across Iowa. Rotation is the best remedy as eggs left in infested fields hatch in new fields, reducing worm presence. Beetles about one-fifth inch feed on silks in fall signaling possible next year infestation.
A seller leaves for the west for a year offering a good Jersey cow with calf, 100 young chickens Rhode Island Reds, dishes, lamps, 40 quarts raspberries, 70 quarts cherries and other mixed fruit and many other items.
A local sale lists one wagon three buggies one road cart two bob sleds one sleigh a ten foot hay rake a hay ladder one set good single harness corn shelter and harrow with two buggy poles plus good sweet corn fodder and other articles too numerous to mention.
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